RUNNING IRON REPORT

CARRY THE FIRE

NAVIGATE

A Game Of Chickens

By 14 Comments

Share via

For some lighter fare, I give you a Hound and a chicken. Better make that two chickens.

We are living in a time of Maximum Bloviation. Everybody has a platform, and discourse on all of them seems to have fallen to the low common denominator of the Facebook rant.

Whenever I tire of listening to blowhards flap their jaws, I fire up this brilliant scene from Game of Thrones and let The Hound do the talkin’ — in all his bloody and foul-mouthed glory. Can’t embed this one, so watch it on Youtube here. And, like I said, it’s foul-mouthed and violent, so if you don’t like that sort of thing, don’t fire it up.

You need no context to appreciate this well-wrought scene, which was the highwater mark of HBO’s landmark fantasy series. It’s “medieval Westeros,” but it could be a tavern on the Monongahela River in 1777 or a saloon in the Arizona Territory in 1880. Or maybe Deadwood.

Oh, and… Fuck the King.

 

 

Jim Cornelius

Jim Cornelius

Born in the suburbs of Los Angeles, Jim Cornelius grew up dreaming of distant frontiers, of mountain men, long hunters, African explorers. His older brother gave him a tattered copy of Allan W. Eckert’s The Frontiersmen, a biography of Simon Kenton, and the twig was bent. Graduated from...

Comments

  3. Matthew says

    Not entirely unrelated I just listened to a podcast at the Art of Manliness about how the internet changes your brain. It’s a somewhat scary podcast. It can make concentrating for a long time harder. I’ve noticed this in myself because I’ve been spending less time reading and more time online.

    https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/shallows-nicholas-carr-interview/

    I think this has a lot of the trouble we are having today might be related to this.

    Reply

  5. TJ says

    Great — now I’m triggered. Thanks Jim! 

    Cool scene. Just started season three of Yellowstone. Some is mental candy for sure, but I do appreciate some of the boss’ conflict resolution skills. We all need a friend like, or should have the loyalty of, Rip Wheeler.

    Reminds me of the rookie days in the early 90’s on the unincorporated streets of Bakersfield. My first real introduction to the scary things that go bump in the night.….. 

    Some great references shared by others too.

    ??

    Reply

  6. John M Roberts says

    I love the way when Arya finally decides to take part in the fight, she draws a sword, goes to a wounded man, picks her spot carefully, then thrusts her point in just a few inches and withdraws it. No hysterics, just a cold-blooded execution. She’s a cold killer disguised as a young girl. And when she kills Polliver, her facial expression when she watches him die is, let’s say, a bit sensual for a girl so young.

    Reply

  7. Quixotic Mainer says

    “You going to die for some chickens?”
    “Someone is…”
    I definitely understand the universal nature of the quote, Josey Wales or Conan could have said that just as easily. While there have always been braggarts and blowhards, I have a distinct feeling the internet tough guy will someday become a thing of the past. That attitude is part of what has bred the wildfire of nastiness, but I expect it will abate considerably when enough folk have smelled blood or powder for themselves.

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.

 

Send this to a friend